Cardinal fish, pistol shrimp, fire, skunk,
snow storm to Da Vinci ,Royal gramma Baslett. All right. More than everybody,
it's a little bit of a smoky day. Let me pull you inside here.
Fires are burning all up and down the West coast,
we are on our way to Temecula.
It's about an hour and a half drive to go visit
Riptide creatures. But since we're out there,
we're also going to go visit a couple other aquarium stores.
There's three out the rice thing. So we're going to check them out.
The goal today is to get the innovative Marine Encore tank stocked with its
first fish.
I just finished all the water testing and the parameters are fantastic.
Better than I could have hoped for fully cycled. Did water changes yesterday.
So what we're going to do is we're going to get one or two small fish
for each side of the tank, a shrimp for each side,
and then probably a couple snails and that's about it.
But hopefully it'd be a fun little trip. And I will see guys when we get there,
okay. We made it, we made it so first up were deep sea creations.
They said I could film inside. So that's fantastic.
We need some sort of small fish for each side.
So like two fish or up to four fish, depending on the size of the fish.
Then we need a couple snails for each side and then I want to get like a
colorful shrimp. So maybe one side, like a blood red and the other side,
like a skunk. So let's go inside and let's see what they have.
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So I need something small, super small.
So that tiny little six line wrath. You'd be good in there for awhile,
but really for 10 gallon tank, that's not going to cut it. Some testings,
a leopard rascal damsels could work lionfish. Um, Nope.
That's not gonna work. Pretty sure it's pretty diamond Goby.
Also not going to work.
There's no way there's going to be enough food for him in the substrate.
You know what got down here. Oh, gorgeous emperor angel.
Oh see you. There he is right there. See that I'm looking at here.
You're just going to give, I think on the red side,
I think he'd be really good on the left side of the tank,
which has the Hawaiian black and the purple rock. I think that color would,
would blend well more tangs Debra Moray. Yeah. Obviously not going to work,
but still cool. I also have the cleaner shrimp here.
Maybe I should get both these. Maybe this is my cleaner shrimp spot, you know?
Oh my goodness. I'm a cool little tank.
We got Rose bubble.
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so really cool store nails.
And then they also had a shrimp. So I think I'll pick up those two here,
go get some lunch and then we'll go store number two and Temecula.
So I was just going to get you six Astraea snails.
You have to do any servicing today or are you all, Oh, really? There.
They have a new series of three for X XL.
So their total comes to three 90. Is your change. Alright cool.
No, I really appreciate it. Deep sea creations. What did we get?
Astraea snails six of them for a serious snails and there's some construction
going on right there. It's very loud, man.
We got our Hawaiian bandaid, cleaner shrimp
guys. We made it stop. Number two, rip tide. The reason we came to Temecula,
let's go in and take a,
the goal here is to get some fish. Promus going to get too big.
That little tank, you know, some pajama Cardinals. It's not a bad idea. Well,
I see a possible look at that by color pseudo. Look at that.
That could be perfect. Yeah. That's like a perfect size. Look at that.
Nice and small. Won't get that big. I mean,
definitely a little bit on the aggressive side lawnmowers now, bigger fish.
I could do a little damsel. Super simple, good beginner fish.
Oh the trigger. Obviously they need a huge thing.
Domino damsels. Maybe I think my one more color.
Probably going to get too big. Good beginner fish. Maybe I'll just go with them.
Oh, look at the little guys. They need such a big tank though.
People the staghorn, I have these, my neighbor's tank staghorn.
They get pretty big. So probably only get a couple lightening maroon. Okay.
Some things that are really good to ask.
When you go at your beginner and you go to a brand new fish store,
you want to know about their foreign team practices.
What do they do when they get their fish in this whole wall?
Here is a fish only system. Now everything that comes in here,
let me show you everything that comes in gets a different hour and methylene
blue. And then they run copper on this system. It's hypo, salinity.
And then about once a week, they run Crosby pro for the flukes. Oh wow.
You do have a little farm back here. We're still building it. Oh, this is great.
So then what's your plans for back here? Just coral grow out.
We do a lot of shows set for this year. We will. AI.
What sort of lighting do you run?
Mainly just blues or are these like at a hundred percent running during the day
or no, I run them at 60, 60% motion.
Revive lights are going to keep those really like,
you're actually really powerful. What is the little alarm? Coby alone.
The Angove and he'll go around. Okay. Nonstop moving. What about Cardinals?
It's going to be too small. I mean, could you do a couple?
How many would you put in there too? What kind is this one?
Snowstorm. Okay. Sweet. Okay. I think, I think we've got everything.
She's the owner back here. Super nice guy. Really helped me out. Okay.
I'm done for the day. It is two 54,
three be home by four 30 in time for dinner. I got a huge hall.
I might stop at one more place, but I think I am fully stocked up,
but I'm going to put this seat down so I can get some of the air conditioning
back here. It's a little bit warm today. So let's get this home. Let's get it.
Drip acclimated so that I can show you guys everything and see how everybody
looks
into home. I'm a little later than I thought so into my daughter's room,
which is where the innovative Marine Encore tanks are.
And we'll hold it the bag and we'll look,
and then we'll float the bag that best fit with the
color scheme this hi. Hi.
On this side,
this side skunk. Oh my God. Look at all the water in that bag. Oh, okay.
Yeah. It's too much water. It's really far.
He goes over here with PJ Cardinals.
These lights are turning off so they should be upstairs. So we've got,
everything has been sitting in here.
Temperature acclimating now for almost 50 minutes.
So I think when we were ready, so on the left side, here's what we got.
We have the blood red fire shrimp, cleaner shrimp,
the Royal grandma gamma Royal gamma, Royal grandma.
I don't know the two PJ Cardinal fish.
And down here we have the Rose Gobi. I think it's called.
And then I don't know what kind of pistol, but they already paired up.
On the right side.
We have the storm clown and he's going to be paired
up with this beautiful de Vinci.
I think their colors together are going to be really pretty.
So I'm going to cut open the bags and start drip acclimating them.
Everybody is two days later.
It's mostly good news with a few pieces of bad news.
So let me turn it around, give you the update.
But if you could do me a favor and hit that subscribe button,
that would be very helpful. On the left side,
we ended up going with two pajama Cardinal fish and they're doing
great, no concerns at all. They seem super healthy,
which is fantastic too nefarious, snails that seem to be doing all right.
And we went with two, like Asteris nails, blood red fire shrimp,
who seems to be scavenging. When I feed underneath here,
we have a Rose Goby and a pistol shrimp.
I have not seen them for a couple of days. I assume they're doing okay.
So the left side of the tank over here, AOK 100%.
The problems we're having are on the right side of the tank.
And you might notice the color is slightly orange ish
yellowish.
That's because as soon as the clowns got home,
the DaVinci, the orange clown, the next morning had egg. It was very,
obviously it wasn't Brooklyn. Ella only. I mean,
I couldn't tell if the storm clown had Eric because he's white.
So it's impossible to see white spots,
spots all over him and kind of a nightmare because it seems to happen to me
whenever I bring new fish home. And so what did I do?
I treated the tank with Ruby rally and Ruby kick.
Some people swear by these products. Some people hate these products.
I they've worked for me in the past. So I use them, Oh, one thing to mention.
I've had some people complain that Matthew, what are you doing?
You're teaching people not to use quarantined tanks.
And that's a hundred percent incorrect because these two tanks are quarantined
tanks. What do I mean by that?
I mean that because they're brand new builds and there's nothing else in there,
they are each individual quarantine tanks because I don't use any sort of
harsh medication in my quarantine tanks.
These guys were quarantine on this side and these guys are quarantined on this
side. So what does it mean so far? No disease on this side, fantastic.
This side, there is disease. So since this is a quarantine tank,
what does that mean?
That means I treat this tank and then this means that once the disease
disappears,
I will not be introducing any new livestock for 72
days, except maybe for some invertebrates,
that way I can beat the X cycle peak disappeared after the first day.
But you can see on the mouth now you see the mouth right there,
there is a secondary bacterial infection.
And because I don't want to screw up my biological filter on the side,
I am treating him with metroplex,
but I'm combining the metroplex with focus and mixing it in with the fish food.
That way the metroplex antibiotic does not just disperse the whole tank and
destroy the biological filter, but it will just be eaten.
The biggest problem I found is the DaVinci clown is not eating and not eating,
obviously because he has an infection on his mouth. It's affecting him.
So I don't have a lot of hope for the DaVinci clown, but worst case scenario,
at least the storm clown is also eating the antibiotics and also getting
treated. So hopefully the storm will survive.
There is also a Gobi in here. I have no idea at all,
where that Gobi is. So I'm assuming the Gobi might be dead, but I dunno,
maybe the Gobi is not. Sometimes you think something's dead and it's not.
I have been testing these tanks and I tested yesterday and both tanks had
slightly higher ammonia levels, which was to be expected.
So I added some micro factor seven to both sides and I'm just gonna be testing
every single day to make sure the ammonia doesn't get out of hand.
If the Monia does get above like 0.5, I will just do a quick water change.
50%. I have water standing by. Yeah. I mean overall some good, some bad.
Let me turn it around real quick.
What is a beautiful fish lovers and my first fish tank.
I just wanted to show you what's going on with my version of the aquarium.
So as you can see here, nothing's going on on the saltwater side, actually,
it's still fresh and it's holding a bunch of plants.
I'm in the process of Aqua escaping this thing.
And I've kind of gone with a cool, uh,
winding sand river with some rocks in the background,
kind of emphasizing larger aspects up front,
smaller in the back to get depth of field.
And I also have this tree here.
It's a bonsai tree with a new this planet on the top.
And if you want to see more about this, how I Aqua escaped it,
check out my channel. There'll be a new video dropping Saturday at noon.
Well, that's it for episode three of the innovative Marine Encore build list,
we have one more to go and what's it going to be?
We're going to add a whole bunch of corals to this tank. So stick around,
probably come out in a couple of weeks. We'll see you then everybody after even.